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F,r Bll'imore-a. r.Io. $40. 7:5d. HaIo aud o IS
q. nli lalp, l:!J, $40, 1880, no, l.jj, $50,
h-r tl5 i5n 500 and il.l1 y. NJ. on sun.
day, $50, i:3J, s3l and y;ii 4 M; l:9j, l:.l,
$50, i#u iIn i.H. Htd, S.-f i'iu y. M.
For AuuGpoli~- -Uir 500 90. iA. u4t 'illU and
ii % IA. Sunday, $3.50 h. m, ana $40 D. N.
For pulltui Hurk-. tredurirH -,uup. iO:5jl +. M;
5HUp, m, Frederick on sunday. i.l5 y. IN.
For points iu Shenandoah NAil"s ag ftr as
lurIl ila D, 10. daily. except sunday.
For Ga,fnursnugg-I and .iu o.. tu.. 1850,
$50. $50, l..E, -.l5 and lI.aI %, ru. daily. rA-
cent SUNDAY; uu Sunday. !, ..uu. u., lI5,
5a1, 500 and 1870 y. m.
For llN-crstuwu--iu.lu u. m. and $50 p. IA,
dluy, except -ugduy
For Chicago i.r'j q. na $50 p. m. daily
For lli'-uuIs--Iu.-f r.. i1,, IS p. m, daily.
For Cincinnati, Louisville .gtS st. Luuls-sIJ
and @ 20 D. IN daily.
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BiissruI Ignorance.

Hotel Keeper--I want to put up some
sort OF notice to keep guests out of the
back hall. Some of them have got into the
kitchen, and the chief cook is very jealous
OF his professional secrets.
Frlend-send out and get mo Admit
tancen sign.
Hotel Keeper-That sounds too harsh. |
want something which won't look so
much like regular order-some motto or
other
IGNORANCE 10 Bllss,"-[ Exchange.
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Ncot Bows uiscomi,t,re,

"No, no." sighed Neal Dow, the great
temperance politician lecturer, as he
stopped over the hydrant, "if my parents
had known of Tharp's Old Rye Berkeley
Whiskies fifty years ago they never would
have taught me to drink such an unsatisfac-
tory liquor as water" James Tharp will
more than confirm this story II you call at
his establishment, at SIS + street north
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At n. a. a. srntion.

From BNltlmore-O;3O, $50, 100, 10, i0:35, 1915
ana il:l5 a. m. $50, 3O5, ago $50 G35,
supdSy SIM n ~ 80 Su 10 ' Xxx i 'J yo a. IA ao5 on
$50, 6:35, {, $50 $50 p. m; 1890 a. IN.
From Annapolis-s;30 and I0I5 "a, m.. 80 and
5:9Op. IN. Sunday lOaI5 "A, IN, and G:35 p. M
From fiGderick-s:25, 0:l5 a. m, and 4ss0,
s:l7 y. IN daily, except Sunday, on sun
gay, $40 "a, m,
From lIurpers Ferry 5:i5 p. m. daily.
From GaitAersburE-7i S:25, 1886, ii:35,
a. ~: 2;55. 4, 5Ij, s:l7 and 1870 D. m. sun
day. s2s, lO30a, m, BIB s:l7 aud II :l0p m.
From laeerstuwn-J:35 a. IN, and 1915, i.!J,
s:l7 p m, daily, except sunday.
From Chicago and Pittsburg-G'2J and 40 a.
m and ago p. m. daily.
From Cincinnati, Louisville and st. Louis
G-.O n. IN. and 1918 .. m daily.
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w hat a Time

People formerly had, trying TO swallow
the old-iashionod pill with its film oi
maguosia vaiuly Disgusting its bitter.
ness and what Il contrast to Ayers
Pills, that have been well called "mcd-
icated sugar-phms" - the only fear be-.
ing that patients may be tempted into
taking too many at dose. But tho
directions are plain and should bo
strictly followed,
J. 4. Teller, NJ, D., Of Chittcuango,
n. W expresses exactly what hundreds
hayo written at greater length, He
says: "Aycr's Cathartic Pills are highly
appreciated. They are perfect in form
aud coating, and their effects are all
that the most careful physician could
desire. They have supplantcd all the
Pills formerly popular here, aud tlinl,
it must he long before any other can
tc made that will at all compare with
them, Those WHO buy your pills get
fun value for their money"
"Sace, pleasant, and certain in
thoir action is tho concise testimony
ol pr, George L. Walker Of Martins.
willie, Virginia.
"sNycr's Pills outaen all similar prep.
aratIons. The public having once used
them. will have No others. H. Berry,
Venoble & Collier, Atlanta, Ga.
Ayers pills,
Prepared by Dr.J. G. AVER s Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold By all Dealers in Medicine.
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WASHINGTON CRITIC
WAsnINaroN, AUGUST le, ISL.
HOW TO WHITE ALoyGsrouY.


Now bring me maid that Is plump and
dark,
And bring me a maid that is tall and
fair;
One must be gay as meadow lark,
One with grave aud queeuly air,
And sort OF high-tOned stately stare,
man, old, rich and perfect fright
A man that is young and debonnair;
And 10 the story that will write.
Bring me summery moonlit park,
Bring me house In q handsome square,
One In the country, kind Of ark
Or refuge for lovers; some mad despair,
Duty, temptation and grief and care,
To take the edge of loves delight,
A few odd people from here aud there,
And 10 the story that will write.
Bring me trip In the treacherous bark,
wreck In the midseas anywhere,
Bring me duel-lIeaven save the mark /!
A reunited and happy pair.
gown from Worths for the bride to
wear,
And bring me fate as dark as night,
For all OF the bold, bad ones to share;
And 10 the story that will write.
ENVOY.
Bring ink and pen to my easy chair,
or paper a ream all fair and white,
A publisher ready to do and dare,
And 10 the story that will write.
Il Carlotta Perry.
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For worn-out," "run-down," dcbilita-
ted school teachers, milliners, scamstresses,
housekeepers, and feeble women generally,
DR.. Picrce's Favorite Prescription is the
best of nll restorative tOnics. II is not q
"Curc-all," but admirably fulflls a single
ness of purpose, being Il most potent Spcci-
iic for all those Chronic Weaknesses and
Diseases peculiar 10. women. 1t is power
ful, general as well rs uterine, tonic and
nervinc, and imparts vigor and strength to
the whole system. II promptly cures weak
ness of stomach, indigestion, bloGtlnE, weak
back, nervous prostraton, debility mud
sleeplcssncss, i'm either sex. Favoritc Pre-
scrlption is sold by druggists under our post
the guarantee. See wrapper around bottle.
Price Sl.OO, or Six Bottles FOR 5000.
A large Treatise on Diseases of Women
lG0 uugcsl, proluscly illustrated, sent for
ten cents in stamps.
Address, WORLDS DIsPENSARY MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION, G6j Main St., Buffalo, n. Y.
SICK HEADACHE, Bilious Headache
and Constipation, cured by Dr. Picrcc's
Pellets. - cents Il vial, by druggists.
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.aIderney Dairy Wagons.

Fresh Alderney butter, churned every
morning and delivered In ID "Ward"
prints, 40c. per lb. Also cottage cheese
buttermilk and sweet milk, &c. per qt
Cream, l5c. per pt.
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IEospitais,

Garfield Memorial Hospital Is M 'hnhn1' Hr
Ientg -IIsatu northwest. l;"uUgl hE E'lr
Trgolmau's Hospital m seventh street oy.
tended just above Boundary uHI is
reached by tho seventh and N..N street
cars
Tile Homeopathic Hospital s 0U y -fro.f hoe
tween lIr,f and Second
Providence Hospital is ON tho snuth sIi" nI ID
street. between Second wd Third suuth
east. with Trelty uarh iu front Reached
hy the avenue line of cars.
stanton Place /. ut the intersection ut Massa-
chusutt- and Maryland avenues InlC street
northeast, II contains q sfgt OF General
Nathaniel Greene.
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The Infantry's TrIn

Colonel William G.. Moore, commanding
the Washington Light Infantry Corps, has
issued general order to the battalion
ordering the men to assemble at the armory
at $50 O'Clock on the night OF August 20,
prepared for nine days camp at Atlantic
City. II is expected that 1875 men will 20.
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DRUNKENNESS
Or the Liquor Habit Can Re Cured
BY Administering Dr. Haines'
Golden SpppifiC,

Can he gwen In CUP OF coffee or tea with
ont the knowledge OF the person taking II. It
Is absolutely harmless, and will effect a per-
mgueIt and speedy cure, whether the patient
Is a moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck.
II has been given In thousands of cases, aud
In every instance perfect Cur has followed
1 never fails. The SYSTEM once imprec-
mated with The Specific, IL becomes an utter
imTus-lhiIity for the liquor appetite 10 exist.
For sale by 5. T. Ware, under Ebbltt House;
K x. llrphenstine, Fourteenth street aud
Vermont avenue, Washington.
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Address Registered Letters to
New Orleans National Bank,
New orleans, La.
NJ. a. DAUPHIS,
New Orleans, La.

REMEMBER that the presence of Generals
Beaurcgard and Early, who are in charge Of
the drawings, Is q guarantee of absolute fair
ness and integrity, that the chances are all
equal, and that no one can possibly divine
what number will draw prize.
"REMEMBER. also, that the payment Of
prizes is GUARANTEED BY FOUR MA
TIONAL BANKS OF New orleans, and the
tickets are signed by the President of an In
stitutiOn whose chartered rights are recOg-
nized In the highest Courts; therefore, beware
of all limitations and anonymous schemes"
The Washington critic., 1887-08-12
I" The leprous dlstIlment, whose effect

y = IHU ItVTOIIs uIsIIITHIHIi WIUsU tIItCU
Holds such an enmity with blood of man,
That, swift as quicksilver, 1t courses
through
The natural gates and alleys of the body"
and causes the skin to become "barked
about, most lazar-llke, with vile and loath-
come crust" Such are the effects OF dis
eased and morbid bile, the only antidote for
which is to cleanse and regulate the liver
an office admirably performed by DR., Pierce's
"Golden Medical Discovery
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A young man going into politics should
give his character to the devil and his
pocketbook to his wife. When he repents
he may be saved New Orleans Plcayune.
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Food for powder-Cheek.--[N. Y.
Journal.
The Washington critic., 1887-08-12

NAME. o. 9 80 NAME. q. = 50
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U. Ii. L. q.
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An IncOns0laDie Girl.

Apropos of the death of Bellanger,
NapOleon's belle annie, | find the fol-
lowing characteristic aneedOte floating
about. saws a writer in the New York
Graphsc. characteristic OF the free-and-
easy days of the empire:
A lady, whom we will call Nine X,
the wife of an upper employe at the
Tuileries, having become widow, aft
er career in which the proprieties had
not been strictly observed, was about TO
marry her daughter.
On the morning of the wedding day
she called her offspring aside and said
TO her:
My darling, l am compelled to make
a confession to you-a confession al
WAYS painful to a mothers heart. You
have been hitherto led to believe that
YOU were the daughter of NJ. Y. This is
not true. Your father, on the contrary,
was Gen. Z.
At this revelation the young girl burst
into tears and seemed utterly inconsola-
bic
After few moments devoted to the
contemplation OF this deluge, Nine. X.
began 10 be slightly irritatgd.
Come, my child, dry your eyes and
remember what this confession has cost
your poor mother. After all, why
should the knowledge that you are the
daughter Of Gen. H.. brave officer and
standing well at court, cause you so
much pain?'
Be -be-be-because, replied the
agita;ed girl, going Oft into fresh
paroXysm, Il thought the em-em-em-
peror was my ta-la--fa
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Natures Fortress.

f seems scarcely possible that in any
part of the habitable globe there should
be natural refuge wherein criminals
can openly defy the law, and where it
is impossible for crime to receive pun
ishment However lax we may be at
times in our judicial proceedings, still
we know it is possible to lay hands on
the evil perpetrators, even though we
desire not TO punish them. In the Island
of FormoSa, however, nature herself has
formed fortified home for bloodthirsty
criminals. Formosa Is an island about
ninety miles off the coast of China. from
which country it is separated by the
channel of Fokien. 1t was unknown to
the Chinese until the year of 1903, and
in 1854 the Dutch established settle
ment there. but after twenty-eight years
of peaceful residence they were expelled
by the famous rebel CoXinga, whose
successors ruled the island until 1858,
when the Chinese took full possession.
Then the population was from 100000
to 100000; now it has dwindled down
to little more than 10000. Although
only 250 miles long and eighty miles in
breadth, nothing is known-by civilized
beings-of the interior portion, for it
is inclosed by an enormous volcanic
range, and it is within this that all the
aborigines now herd together. These
natives have q slender form, olive COM
pleXion, long hair. and blacken their
teeth. They have no written language,
and their religion is confined to super
stltious belief in demons and sorcerers.
No wonder then that they are easily
governed by some of the more advanced
descendants OF the rebel CoXinoa. many
OF whom have taken up their abode
with them, and wild and desperate
life they lead. They take advantage OF
the asylum offered by this belt of coun-
try to make organized expeditions
therefrom for purposes of pillage, and
even 90 so far as to arrange defensive
operations against the dwellers on the
seacoast as preteXt for the levying of
money. More than 1000 cases of muir
der are committed by these people every
year. and the Chinese authorities are
completely set al defiance.
The mountainous nature of the Coun-
try, and the large numbers to be dealt
with preclude all success of the Chinese
soldiers against them. The brigands
know every loophole. and can get out
side, whereas the others are unable to
find their way in. The policy of the
present Governor of Formosa seems to
be to draw all the natives outside and
away from their associates. This plan
has partly succeeded, but there are still
at least 100000 natives leagued with
the brigands, and nature lofty volcanic
walls still remain fortress impossible
to storm, but easily held by these red
handed desperadoes.-Sa,g Francisco
Call
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Coquelin's Voice.

In the January Century, Henry James
has a critical paper accompanied by
portrait of Coquelin, the French actor.
at NAV be said that nj. Coquelin'
voice betrays him; that he cannot get
away from it. and that whatever he
does with it one is always reminded
that only he can do such things. His
voice. IN short perpetually. loudly
identifies him. It's life and force are
such that the auditor sometimes feels as
if it were running away with him
taking holiday. performing antics and
gyrations on its own account. The
only reproach it would ever occur to me
TO make to the possessor of it is that he
perhaps occasionally loses the idea
while he listens to the sound. But such
an organ may well beguile the ear even
of him who has toiled to forge and
polish it; it is impossible to imagine
anything more directly formed for the
stage, where the prime necessity OF
every effort is that it shall tell. When
Coquelin speaks, the sound is not sweet
and caressing, though it adapts itself
beautifully, as | have limited. to effects
of gentleness and pathos; it has no
analogy with the celebrated and de-
licious murmur of Delaunay, the en-
chanting cadences and semitones of
that artist, also so accomplished, so per-
feet. 1t is not primarily the voice OF 4
lover. or rather (for hold that any
acIor-such is the indulgence of the
public to this particular sentiment
may be lover with any voice. it is not
primarily, like that of NJ Delaunay, the
voice of love. There is no reason why
it should have been. for the passion of
love is not what NJ. Coquelin has usually
had to represent.
If NJ. Coquelin's voice is
not sweet, it is extraordinarily clear,
firm, and ringing, and it has an un-
surpassable distinctness, peculiar
power to carry. As | write | seem TO
hear it ascend like rocket to the great
huShed dome of the theater of the Rue
de Richelieu. 1t vlbrates, it lashes the
air, II seems to proceed from some me-
chanism still more scientific than the
human throat. In the great cumua-
tive TRADES of the old comedy, the diff
cuites OF which are pure sport for NJ.
Coquelin. ii filings down the words, the
verses, as a gamester precipitated by
table. | am not sure that the most per-
feet piece of acting that l have seen him
achieve is not a prose character. but it
is certain that to appreciate to the full
what is most mastery in his form one
must listen to enjoy his delivery of
verse. That firmness touched with
hardness. that easy confidence which is
only the product OF the most determined
study, shine forth in proportion as the
problem becomes complicated. 1t does
not, indeed, as general Thing, become
so psychologicalIy in the old rhymed
parts; but in these parts the question of
eiocution, of diction, or even simply the
question of breath, bristles both with
opportunities and with dangers. Per-
haps it would be most exact to say that
wherever NJ. Coquelin has very long
and composite speech to utter, be it
verse or prose, there one gets the cream
of his talent"
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Eton Nfoutem.

Any old Eton boy would tell you that
you might as well never have been born
as not to know about Montem. Whv,
Montem was as old as Queen Eliza
beth's time, and Queen Victoria was
broken up. The senior colleger was
captain of Montem, and he sometimes
made 1000 out of it.
On the morning of Montem day, the
captain gave great breakfast in the
Hall to the fifth and sixth forms. Then
the boys marched twice around the
school yard, the ensign waved the great
flag, the corporals drew their swords.
and the procession started through the
Playing Fields to Salt Hill. in long
line, accompanied by two or three regi-
mental bands. The officers wore red
tail coats, white trousers, cooked hats
with feathers, and regiuental boots;
and the lower boys wore blue coats with
brass buttons, white waistcoats and
trousers, silk stockings and pumps. and
carried slender white poles. But before
this, long before sunrise, the salt-bear-
ers and their twelve assistants had
gone, some on foot and some in gigs,
to their places on all the great roads
leading to Eton. to beg ''Salt' from
everybody they met. Salt meant money:
and everybody had to give them salt
George the Third and Queen Charlotte
always gave fifty guineas apiece. The
money went to the captain of Montem,
10 help him pay his expenses at the uni
versity to which he was to 90 after
leaving Eton. The salt-bearers carried
satin money-bags and painted slaves.
and is receipts for the salt that they
secured they gave little printed tickets
with the date of the year, and Latin
motto.
Everybody went to Montem. King
George always used to 90, and Queen
Victoria went. There was always a
''Montem poet'' who dressed in patch
work, and wore crown; and he drove
about the crowd in donhey-cart, recit-
ing his ole and tlourishing copies OF it
for sale.
When the procession came to the top
OF Salt Hill, the ensign waved his FLAG Il
second time and that ended the cele-
bration; only the boys and the visitors
all went to the inns at Windsor for a
big dinner.-EdWjH d. Mead, in ST.
AtCROtaS
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The Cambodian House.

The character of the Cambodian
house is largely determined by the
phenomenon of the inundation. 1t is
built on piles, often, on one side at
least. some twenty or twenty-five feet
above the ground. The piles on one
side stand in the river, and the door is
on the other side. All that the proprie-
tor asks is that the door shall be a few
inches above the water in time of
freshet He might put 1t on the level
ground near the stream, but he prefers
to have it overhang. in part at least.
and slope. The floor is reached by
ladders. which are drawn up in the
evening-the surest mode of closing the
house in a country where there are no
locks.
Under the floor the pirogue is moored
on one side. while the poultry. dog>,
and pigs live on the other side. The
pigs have hollow backs and their bellies
drag on the ground, but their owner
does not disdain to share his abode
with them. have seen the Cambo-
dian and his pig lying side by side at
MONDAY, enjoying their SieSta. Places
are also found under the house for the
wagons, plows, and tishing-tackle. The
floor is usually a wicker-work of woven
bamboo laths, which bend and creak at
every step, and which we, with our
shoes and heavy walk, find it hard to
get over. But the Cambodian walks
Iight-footed and carefully, much as we
try to do when we 90 on tip-toe, but,
not being troubled with shoes, with
vastly better success. Bending his legs
little and leaning forward, with his
arms brought up toward his chest, he
puts his foot delicately on two or three
of the Stats at time, and walks noise
lossly on, while we would always feel as
if we were going to break through.
These open floors are easily cleaned with
a dash of water which runs of, no one
cares where. In case the inundatiQn
should threaten to rise above them. the
owner can make another floor higher
up. with some bamboo sticks and a few
hours of time.
The house is only one story high.
The framing Of the roof except for the
larger pieces, which are of timber, i
made with bamboos Of sizes graduated
to correspond with the weight they are
intended to support. 1t is covered with
shlngNng OF paim-leaYeS, or with
wisps OF straw, after the fashion OF a
European Ihatch. The outside walls and
the partitions are often made in the
same way. Inside the house is divided
into three or more apartments. The
first, the veStbule, usually open in
front, is reached by the ladder. Next
to it is the principal room, serving for
salon, dining-room. and bedroom, and
from this doors open into the private
family rooms or apartments of the
women and children, to which Euro
peanS are not admitted, and native
visitors but rarely. Two small rooms
are occasionally built by the sides of
the yestlbule for the young men. The
girls, whatever their age, always live
with their mother. The whole structure
is some thirty-tive or forty feet square.
Besides his uwelling-house the Cambo-
dian builds taller house, also on piles
and having no entrance except by q
small window, which he is particular to
make tight against the rain; and this is
the granary tor his rice.-A. MaaGret, ss
Popular Science Monthly.
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Reformed Conyicts.

''You would hardly believe it, but
rcany of our 'hOarders' desire tc remain
even after their terms have expired"
said one Of the keepers of the Kings
county penitentiary TO Brooklyn EGgIe
reporter. Long term prisoners OF both
sexes i'll time learn to love their 7x3 feet
cells. For instance, in the female
department we have two or three life
prisoners. These have become so accus-
toned to the rules and regulations of
prison life that l hardly think they
would escape if an opportunity was Of
fered them. As you see, they have
decorated and furnished their cells, and
have evidently made up their mind that
they have come TO stay. And then there
is another class of prisoners. who,
knowing that they would be unable to
earn an honest living outside, prefer to
remain here where they receive good
treatment and enough to eat"
Said prominent Brooklyn police Of
fetal:
Il have long contended that home
should be provided for ex-conyicts,
where they could 60 when released and
earn an honest living. Such a home
could be established or the outskirts of
Brooklyn, New York, OF any other large
city. The men, and in fact the women,
could be employed in manufacturing
industries, and thus be free from The
bla kmail levied by their fellow-con-
victs."
How blackmail?" the reporter ask
ed
Il Will tell you. Convicted felons
desiring to reform often travel many
mics from the scenes of their crimes
They are unable to obtain work unless
they suppress the fact that they have
been in prison. | know many instances
in which convicts, having settled in
some western city where they were
leading an honest life, have been track
ed and exposed by fellow convicts.
Sucn men have been compelled to pay
heavy blackmail. or else be exposed
and disgr0ced. In case a man, an ex-
convict, has been leading IA straight
life for five years in town where ne
has made new friends and new asso-
Citations it is rather hard that he should
be compelled TO lose everything simply
because at one time in his existence he
has been crooked. Men OF this stamp
VINO have been exposed give up all hope
and return to their former life"